This professional development day will look at contemporary forms of prejudice as they might apply to the counselling setting and, in addition, will explore the understandable ‘interaction unease’ which can occur when well-intentioned practitioners, eager to be non-prejudiced, meet with individuals from a stigmatised group.

This professional development day will look at contemporary forms of prejudice as they might apply to the counselling setting and, in addition, will explore the understandable ‘interaction unease’ which can occur when well-intentioned practitioners, eager to be non-prejudiced, meet with individuals from a stigmatised group.

This professional development day will look at contemporary forms of prejudice as they might apply to the counselling setting and, in addition, will explore the understandable ‘interaction unease’ which can occur when well-intentioned practitioners, eager to be non-prejudiced, meet with individuals from a stigmatised group.

This workshop will offer participants an opportunity to reflect on what the body means in person-centred therapy - to consider the organismic, bodily basis of experiencing and to question what it might mean to hold the body in mind as we work therapeutically.